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I've mentioned mine in the past: the first part here may seem redundant, but there's a reason I bring it up lol.
When I was three (I started remembering things once I turned three: before then, I have 0 memory of anything), I played Golden Axe on the Sega Genesis for the first time and immediately became hooked on video games (it was the first time I played a videogame). I didn't know what I was doing, but I was having a blast lol. A few months later, football season begins and my dad being a massive Cowboys fan, they were always on Fox (the theme came out 2 years later and that has been embedded in my brain for most of my life lol) and we watched them every week, thus my first introduction to the sport was via the Cowboys. For some reason though, Boomer Esiason is the first player I ever remember hearing the name of, I don't know why. As the year wore on, names like Leon Lett and Nate Newton (probably due to alliteration) became stuck in my head and when they won the SB, it was Cowboys mania in our house.
I'm nearing 4 years old after the SB and I start playing the original, console version of John Madden football on the Genesis at my uncle's, but there were only 16 teams in the game (or 18 or whatever) and the Cowboys were not one of them! (when the game came out, they went 1-15, so my guess is they were left off for that reason) Bummed not being able to play as them, since I was a big cat lover, my uncle suggested to pick the Bengals, as they were tigers. So I play with them, lose every game because I don't know how to play the game lol. but have enough fun. Fast forward a few more months and now at 4, I ask my dad about the Bengals and he tells me that Boomer used to be their QB (he was with the Jets at this point) and that instantly shot them to be above the Cowboys lol. The season starts and we only see highlights and newspaper box scores (I learned to read all boxes at a young age
), but the first Bengals player I learn of is John Copeland (hence why he is my second favourite Bengals DL ever) and then I embraced every opportunity I had (which were copiously few) to see or read about the team.
Fast forward 5 years to 1998 and I inherit my uncle's Genesis. As the console was discontinued, games were being heavily discounted at video rental shops and the first game we got (for $5.00) was Madden 98. ROSTERS. TRADES. ALL THE TEAMS. I was in heaven and it was at that point that I was no longer just a fan of the team, but became obsessed lol. The dawn of the internet made me even more obsessed and once I joined the mothership in April of '09 (right before the draft), I made it a point of becoming as invested as I could in the team going forward.
And here we are :)
When I was three (I started remembering things once I turned three: before then, I have 0 memory of anything), I played Golden Axe on the Sega Genesis for the first time and immediately became hooked on video games (it was the first time I played a videogame). I didn't know what I was doing, but I was having a blast lol. A few months later, football season begins and my dad being a massive Cowboys fan, they were always on Fox (the theme came out 2 years later and that has been embedded in my brain for most of my life lol) and we watched them every week, thus my first introduction to the sport was via the Cowboys. For some reason though, Boomer Esiason is the first player I ever remember hearing the name of, I don't know why. As the year wore on, names like Leon Lett and Nate Newton (probably due to alliteration) became stuck in my head and when they won the SB, it was Cowboys mania in our house.
I'm nearing 4 years old after the SB and I start playing the original, console version of John Madden football on the Genesis at my uncle's, but there were only 16 teams in the game (or 18 or whatever) and the Cowboys were not one of them! (when the game came out, they went 1-15, so my guess is they were left off for that reason) Bummed not being able to play as them, since I was a big cat lover, my uncle suggested to pick the Bengals, as they were tigers. So I play with them, lose every game because I don't know how to play the game lol. but have enough fun. Fast forward a few more months and now at 4, I ask my dad about the Bengals and he tells me that Boomer used to be their QB (he was with the Jets at this point) and that instantly shot them to be above the Cowboys lol. The season starts and we only see highlights and newspaper box scores (I learned to read all boxes at a young age
), but the first Bengals player I learn of is John Copeland (hence why he is my second favourite Bengals DL ever) and then I embraced every opportunity I had (which were copiously few) to see or read about the team.Fast forward 5 years to 1998 and I inherit my uncle's Genesis. As the console was discontinued, games were being heavily discounted at video rental shops and the first game we got (for $5.00) was Madden 98. ROSTERS. TRADES. ALL THE TEAMS. I was in heaven and it was at that point that I was no longer just a fan of the team, but became obsessed lol. The dawn of the internet made me even more obsessed and once I joined the mothership in April of '09 (right before the draft), I made it a point of becoming as invested as I could in the team going forward.
And here we are :)
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